Kennerleigh Circular Walk to Woolfardisworthy

Approximate Time: 1½hr

Distance: 3½miles/5.85km

Type of Walk: The walk is an easy to moderate route, mostly following quiet lanes, field paths, and gently rolling farmland. Underfoot it’s generally straightforward, though muddy or uneven stretches, livestock‑grazed fields, narrow hedge‑lined sections, and a few short climbs add a touch of challenge and call for a bit more awareness.

Directions:

1. Start at Kennerleigh Community shop on the main road.
2. Pass the shop and phone box on your right. On the left take the public footpath follow the winding track until you reach some barns. Take the gate in front of you and bear left, follow the yellow arrow on the left hand-end of the barn into a field.
3. Walk through the field with the hedge on your left and Farm buildings ahead. At the end of the field continue into the next one, bearing slightly right as indicated by the arrow. This leads to another gateway lead on with the hedge on your right.
4. Take the gate on your right and cross the track to go through another gate. An arrow directs you diagonally towards the left-hand field and a gap, which you enter the wood. At the bottom of the slope follow the clear track ahead as indicated by the arrow. After awhile you reach a muddy crossing stream spanned by a beautiful fallen tree.
5. Go through the arrowed gate, then follow the track uphill to a path. Bear left and then right, then soon join the footpath it's a sharp right, through a gate into another field. After this turn left, with the field boundary on your left to a gate.
6. This is a good spot to rest for a minute. Cross the lane and take the footpath, walking down the next field with the hedge now on your right. Along the hedge you will come across a metal gate into an area of trees, continue to another gate and over a bridge, then turn right along the hedge. Moor Farm is on your left as you follow the hedge, bearing left just before the end of the field to another plank bridge and gate in the boundary, followed by another plank.
7. Walk through the field with a ditch to your right and woodland. At the far side of the field cross a high, stepped stile and continue beyond in the same line, boundary on the left. You will pass ponds on the right. Keep on the track as it veers right below the house, following the line of the fence with more ponds to the right. Walk away from the house along their drive.
8. Follow the drive looking for the yellow arrow near a eucalyptus tree directing you left up a field track. Follow this, beside the right-hand hedge, for about 100m to a stile on the right. Cross here and walk straight across the field to the far boundary.
9. There are fabulous rolling views down to your right. Pass through two small gates in quick succession and walk through the next field with the hedge on your left. In the Autumn / winter you will see Woolfardisworthy church ahead. At the end of the field leave through the second gate on the left, which has two arrows, and turn right across the field, towards a gate into the churchyard.
10. Leave the church by the main gate and follow the path downhill until you reach the lane. Turn right, ignoring the footpath that goes left almost immediately, and stay on the bendy lane to reach Creedy Farm and Creedy Barn in just over a third of a mile. Bear right with the lane and pass Creedy View on the left.
11. Up hill turn left through a gate to join the signed footpath, turning right to keep the hedge on your right until you reach a stile at the end of the field. Cross and turn right along the lane to another stile on the left. Walk ahead with the hedge on the left. Go through the arrowed gateway on the left and continue in the same direction as before, now with the hedge on your right.
12. At the next gate continue through the field  and enter a third field, there are barns ahead to the left as you get closer. Bear left beyond the barns and leave the field through a gate onto the lane opposite the church. Turn left on the lane and you are back in Kennerleigh!

Thank you to Devon Life for this great walk https://www.devonlife.co.uk/home/devon-walk-kennerleigh-and-woolfardisworthy-1-4519609